There is a persistent belief that some people speak with an accent and others speak normally.
It is not true in any technical sense, and the belief itself is worth…
Maya Linton
Source: Wikipedia
Medieval chronicles contain a great deal of material that is obviously not literal. Portents, marvels, signs and wonders appear regularly, and historians read them as they were meant —…
There is a specific social awkwardness that everybody has encountered from one side and nobody from both.
Visiting an unfamiliar house, you register its smell immediately — not unpleasant necessarily,…
The single most useful habit is to look at how the trees meet the ground. Multiple stems from one base, a swollen top on a short trunk, or a single…
The useful frame is extraction. You are dissolving specific substances out of solid material into water, and everything about the result depends on which substances come out and what happens…
The useful question about any symmetrical thing is not why somebody made it that way but what process would produce that arrangement without anybody deciding. Here are sixteen answers.
1.…